Symmetric Icons
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about symmetric icons.
Study in Blues and Greens II, Symmetric icon with 10-fold
reflectional symmetry. Constructed using methods
based on symmetric dynamical systems.
Exhibited in Kingwood College, "Math=Art" exhibition, Nov 9-22, 2000.
Earthlines, Symmetric icon with 10-fold
reflectional symmetry. Constructed using methods
based on symmetric dynamical systems.
Gothic Medalion. Symmetric icon with 5-fold refelctional symmetry. Constructed using methods
based on symmetric dynamical systems. Image includes detail.
Reworked and newly colored version
of image with same name that originally appeared in Symmetry in Chaos,
OUP, 1992.
Exhibited in Kingwood College, "Math=Art" exhibition, Nov 9-22, 2000.
For MLZ. Symmetric icon with 5-fold reflectional symmetry. Constructed using methods
based on symmetric dynamical systems.
Nite Vision. Symmetric icon with 30-fold reflectional symmetry. Constructed using methods
based on symmetric dynamical systems. Image includes detail.
Created for the 30th Anniversary of CAAM - Rice University.
Thorns. Symmetric icon with 5-fold rotational symmetry. Constructed using methods
based on symmetric dynamical systems.
Shown in Science in the Arts - Art in the Sciences exhibition in Budapest,
Hungary, June/July, 199; Art & Mathematics 2001, Berkshire Community College,
February 1 - March 30, 2001.
Ghosts. Symmetric icon with 3-fold rotational symmetry. Constructed using methods
based on symmetric dynamical systems. Image includes detail.
email: mikefield@gmail.com
Professor Mike Field
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
